Hauler Talk<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n\u201cHow we kind of pick those cars, if you will, you know, fans hear the word \u2018random\u2019 and think that we have a pill bucket and we pull it out and whoever finishes, and we pull out 19 and whoever finished 19th knows that they\u2019re coming home with us,\u201d Forde began. \u201cThat is not how we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again, it\u2019s random to the teams but not to NASCAR, which intends to look at every car over the course of the season to ensure parity and compliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s random in that the garage doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s coming,\u201d Forde said. \u201cThe randomness isn\u2019t a pull it out of the hat, and that\u2019s who is coming home with us. What we try to do is pick a selection, we obviously keep track of all this, we have a grid, and try to pick the, spread it out through all the teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, by all the teams, not just Hendrick and Roush and Penske and JGR, which is the case, but have all five, all four Hendrick cars come home. Have all three Penske cars come home throughout the season. And have different OEMs as well. So very rarely will you see two Toyotas come back or two Chevys or two Fords. This week we had a Ford and a Toyota on the Cup side come home. So, that\u2019s kind of how we look at it. When we do it is also mildly random.\u201d<\/p>\n
All told, it\u2019s NASCAR\u2019s way of showing teams that they could look for things to penalize at any time over the course of the season, even if a car did not run particularly well, so always be compliant with rules and regulations.<\/p>\n
However, there is a history of truly random selections as Forde detailed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Wayne Auton, the famous, legendary, iconic Wayne Auton, was the series director of the Xfinity Series, he did do it that way,\u201d Forde said. \u201cYears ago. Towards the end of his tenure as the series director, he did not do it that way. And Brad Moran [Cup Series managing director] doesn\u2019t do it this way, and Seth Kramlich in the Truck Series doesn\u2019t do it this way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Periodically, following races in the NASCAR Cup Series, officials will select two to three cars to take back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-53666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}